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CATALOG INDEX - Books - CD-ROM - Comics - Journals - Venomous Butterfly Publications
Anon: At Daggers Drawn, $2.50
“To say what the enemy does not expect and to be where they are not waiting for us. That is the new poetry.”
Antimatter (Burt Greene): The Meaning of Tiananmen, $1.50
An anti-state, anti-capitalist perspective on the Beijing events of 1989. Also published in Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed issue #58.
Anti-Parliamentary Communist Federation: Class War on the Home Front, $4
“This pamphlet chronicles the hidden history of revolutionary opposition to the Second World War through a collection of articles which originally appeared in the APCF’s newspaper, Solidarity, between 1939 and 1944. Other articles include contributions from Paul Mattick and Anton Pannekoek.
“The powerful arguments put forward by the APCF to support their case that all out struggle against capitalism is the only meaningful opposition to war are as true and as relevant today as ever before. Their call for the ‘destruction of all Imperialism by the Proletarian World Revolution’ must be taken up to prevent the horrors of the last war being repeated again.” - Wildcat, 1986.
Baker, Catherine: Against Prisons, free
“Does the abolition of prison mean the abolition of justice, laws and any kind of society? YES.”
La Banquise: For a World Without Moral Order, $3
This pamphlet is a rewrite of a text first appearing in La Banquise #1 (1983). It is a controversial analysis of imposed morality from an anti-state communist viewpoint. The essay examines love, sacredness and crime in our society. Challenging taboos, it suggests ways in which these three categories would be superceeded within communism. No political correctness here. A reprint by Tarantula Publications.
Bonanno, Alfredo M: The Anarchist Tension, $2
"Anarchism is not a concept that can be locked up in a word like a gravestone. It is not a political theory. It is a way of conceiving life, and life, young or old as we may be, old people or children, is not something definitive: it is a stake we must play day after day: When we wake up in the morning and put our feet on the ground we must have a good reason for getting up, if we don't it makes no difference whether we are anarchists or not. We might as well stay in bed and sleep."
Bonanno, Alfredo M: Apart from the Obvious Exceptions, $2.50
"The appeal trial in Rome in which anarchists were accused of belonging to a clandestine armed organization has concluded with higher sentences than those meted out on the previous occasion. That was in the logic of things. [...] If on the one hand the fact that there was no sentence for 'armed organization' or 'terrorism' - to use the terms of the law - can be considered a defeat for the dogged zeal of prosecutor Marini, the above-mentioned personage has every reason to feel pleased concerning the diatribes that this trial has led to within the anarchist movement." - from the Introduction.
This pamphlet includes the articles "Apart from the Obvious Exceptions" and "A Few Considerations by a Frequenter of the Courts," as well as an interview by Bonanno with Radio Onda Rossa. The three texts all concern disputes within the Italian anarchist milieu following a late-1990s round of trials.
Bonanno, Alfredo M: Armed Joy, $2
“Hurry to attack capital before a new ideology makes it sacred to you. Hurry to refuse work before some new sophist tells you yet again that ‘work makes you free.’ Hurry to play. Hurry to arm yourself.”
Camatte, Jacques: The Wandering of Humanity, $3
This pamphlet includes the essays “The Wandering of Humanity - Repressive Consciousness - Communism” and “Decline of the Capitalist Mode of Production or Decline of Humanity?” Both texts pose challenges to Marxist concepts of “progress.” A major influence for many current anti-civilization theorists.
Claudia: I, Claudia: Feminism Unveiled / Love Lies Bleeding, $3
“I hope to encourage the more perceptive reader to cut through the hypocrisy of the women’s movement and recognize it for what it is: middle-class aspirations and puritanism masquerading as rebellion.” (I, Claudia) “Spouse murder is no insane aberration. It is but one logical product of a ‘loving relationship’.” (Love Lies Bleeding)
Dauvé, Gilles (as Jean Barrot): What is Situationism?, $3
Important critique of the Situationist International (1957 - 71) by a fellow traveler on the (anti-state) communist left.
Dauvé, Gilles: When Insurrections Die, $2.50
“1917-37: twenty years that shook the world. The succession of horrors represented by fascism, then World War II and the subsequent upheavals, are the result of a gigantic social crisis opening with the mutinies of 1917 and closed by the Spanish Civil War.”
The Dawn Collective: Under the Yoke of the State: Selected Anarchist Responses to Prisons and Crime, 1886-1929, $3
This pamphlet offers personal reflections from anarchists about time spent behind bars and critiques of the prison system from the Haymarket frame-up to the Sacco-Vanzetti trial. It gives direct testimony on the treatment of prisoners in numerous penitentiaries, World War One internment camps, and Bolshevik jails. It also presents many viewpoints on how capitalism’s exploitation is society’s greatest crime, and how anti-social acts would be treated in a truly free and just world.This collection includes complete essays by Peter Kropotkin (”Prisons and Their Moral Influence on Prisoners”), Emma Goldman (”Prisons: A Social Crime and Failure”) and Alexander Berkman (”Crime”). Plus material from anarchist fighters Ricardo Flores Magón, Errico Malatesta, Louise Michel, Albert Parsons, Rudolf Rocker, Mollie Steimer and others.
Free (Jeff Luers): Let’s Get Free!, $5
A collection of writings by and about Jeff “Free” Luers, ecodefense prisoner and anarchist. All proceeds go to Free’s Support Group.
Free (Jeff Luers) and Rob los Ricos: Heartcheck, $6
Heartcheck is a 40-page 'zine with new, unpublished writings and artwork by anarchist prisoners Jeff 'Free' Luers and Robert 'Los Ricos' Thaxton. Heartcheck is professionally printed, with funds from its sales going to both prisoners. From the introduction: "With millions of people dying, the environment being poisoned and destroyed by consumerism, there really are only three kinds of people: the victims, the problem, and the solution. This zine is dedicated to the latter."
Fundi (Carribean Situationist): None Shall Escape: Radical Perspectives in the Caribbean, $1
“The following is a compilation of excerpts from a forum on Grenada and Jamaica, which was held in San Francisco in December, 1983, follow-up interviews and informal discussions. The edited statements belong to a 53-year-old Jamaican named Fundi. The basis for his critical analysis of Grenada and the English-speaking Caribbean comes from a history of first-hand experiences with collective revolt in Jamaica.”
George Jackson Brigade: The Power of the People is the Force of Life: Political Statement of the George Jackson Brigade, $4
“The George Jackson Brigade was an armed guerrilla group that operated in the Pacific Northwest in the 1970s and was one of the most unique political formations that developed during a period of revolutionary armed struggle within the US. Their 1977 Political Statement outlines their political vision as well as the ongoing debates among Brigade members. It was such an important document that it was used as evidence in trials against Brigade members when the Brigade was smashed by police repression and its members were either imprisoned, killed or in hiding. This edition also includes a chronology of Brigade actions.”
Gorter, Herman: Open Letter to Comrade Lenin, $4
“This is the full text of one the landmark texts of the Communist Left: Herman Gorter’s Open Letter To Comrade Lenin. Dirt-cheap copies of Lenin’s notorious diatribe against the Communist Left, “Left-Wing” Communism, an Infantile Disorder, have been churned out by the ton by the state presses of Moscow and Peking, whereas Gorter’s methodical destruction of Lenin’s arguments has languished in near-total obscurity, at least to the English-speaking world, for nearly seventy years. Its reappearance is long overdue.” - From the 1989 Introduction by Wildcat (UK).
Green Anarchy (eds.): Attacking Prisons at the Point of Production, $1
This pamphlet examines direct action against the prison system. The pages concerning the French radical outlaws Os Cangaceiros are especially useful.
Hill, Gord: 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance, $4
1992 essay from the revolutionary indigenous paper OH-TOH-KIN.
Los Ricos, Rob: Manufacturing Dissent, $5
Prison Writings of Anarchist Prisoner Rob los Ricos. Good radical stuff; high “solidarity” price.
Malatesta, Errico: Anarchy, $2
The classic introduction to anarchy and anarchism.
Munis, G. & John Zerzan: Unions Against Revolution, $3
“ Unions Against Revolution is a translation of a work by G. Munis written in 1960 and reprinted in France after the events of May 1968. The English version appearing here is from Internationalism. It was followed by a rejoinder by Judith Allen, excerpts from which are reprinted throughout this pamphlet. Organized Labor versus ‘The Revolt Against Work’ by John Zerzan appeared in the Fall, 1974 issue of Telos.”
Péret, Benjamin and Franklin Rosemont: An Introduction to Benjamin Péret, $2
Reprinted from Radical America Vol. IV, No. 6, this pamphlet includes Franklin Rosemont’s essay on the infamous surrealist and revolutionary, as well as samples of Péret’s polemics, poetry and prose.
Perlman, Fredy: The Continuing Appeal of Nationalism, $3
This is a clear analysis of nationalism and “national liberation struggles” from one of the most important anarchist thinkers of recent decades.
Perlman, Fredy: Progress and Nuclear Power, $2
Perlman’s essay links the genocidal expansion of Western civilization across North America with technological expansion, leading to the advent of nuclear holocaust. This Eberhardt Press edition is offset printed & hand bound.
Perlman, Fredy: The Reproduction of Everyday Life, $2
An analysis of class society, alienation, and how to do away with all of it. Perspectives: At Dusk: The Situationist Movement in Historical Perspective, $5
First published 1975 by the Berkeley radical group Perspectives, this was one of the first attempts at a full critique of Situationist theory. Interesting reading for all those concerned with the Situationist International and its legacy.
Postone, Moishe: Anti-Semitism and National Socialism, $2
“The Holocaust…cannot be understood so long as anti-Semitism is viewed as an example of racism in general and so long as Nazism is conceived of only in terms of big capital and a terrorist bureaucratic police state. Auschwitz, Belzec, Chelmno, Maidanek, Sobibor, and Treblinka should not be treated outside the framework of an analysis of National Socialism. They represent one of its logical end points, not simply its most terrible epiphenomenon. No analysis of National Socialism that cannot account for the extermination of European Jewry is fully adequate.”
An “Uncontrollable” of the Iron Column: A Day Mournful and Overcast, $2
Written during the Spanish Civil War by an anarchist militia member, this is an attack on the militarization of the struggle. The Iron Column militia consisted of ex-prisoners who fought for anarchist social revolution.
“Vancouver Five”: Writings of the Vancouver Five, $3
Writings by the 1980s eco-anarchist urban guerilla defendants. Includes “Living in Reality” by Doug Stewart, “Feminist Resistance vs. Reform” by Ann Hansen, “The Work Ethic and the Western Dream” by Gerry Hannah and “Patriarchal Conquest & Industrial Civilization” by Brent Taylor.
Various: Jane: Documents from Chicago’s Clandestine Abortion Service 1968-1973, $3
“This collection may not only to be viewed in terms of abortion rights, or even strictly in terms of the quest for women to have control over their bodies, but also in terms of any group of people face-up against the onslaught of modern-day slavery (in all its forms) taking control over their lives. Jane is an inspiration - a beautiful example that battles can be won without begging. Today they can be seen as a bold display of an effective underground organization operating with utter disregard for the letter of the law - women taking their lives into their own hands and taking responsibility for their actions, all the while without asking for anyone’s permission.”
Various: “Nous Sommes Tous Des Casseurs”: Youth Revolt in France, March 1994, $3
“In March 1994, the French government wanted to give its tender young wage slaves a 20% pay cut. The State must have figured it would be good training for their future careers as exploited human capital. But a funny thing happened on the way to the bank: those vulnerable young workers stood up and told the State to royally (or rather democratically) fuck off. It took a month of demos, protests, and riots, becoming ever bigger, more violent, and out of control, for the government to finally back down. “The media quickly began trying to impose the idea that an innocent, peaceful protest was being taken advantage of by bad people called ‘hooligans.’ This issue became a major preoccupation in the movement, the subject of numerous leaflets handed out in demonstrations, some translated here. ‘Nous sommes tous des casseurs’ - ‘we’re all hooligans’ - was one of the slogans raised against that kind of propaganda.”
Various: The Prison Within The Prison, $4
The Spanish State’s prison system condemns political and rebellious prisoners to the FIES isolation units, brutal and dehumanising “prisons within the prisons” which have been the focus of widespread resistance, on both sides of the walls. In this booklet, some of the participants in this revolt against prisons and the state share their thoughts and experiences. A Tarantula Publications reprint from the Brighton ABC edition. A portion of sales go to support of anarchist prisoners.
Various: Wildcat! Dodge Truck, June 1974, $2
“Those of us who cooperated on the publication of this pamphlet did so because the wildcat strike at the Chrysler Truck facility, June 11-14, 1974, struck a raw nerve in us. We were excited by the collective decision of thousands of Chrysler employees to deny the authority of daily wage labor and, for even four days, to say no to the demands of the alarm clock, the production line, bosses, union bureaucrats, Judges and cops.”
Various: You Cannot Kill Us, We Are Already Dead, $3
Documents from and about the insurrectionary movement in Algeria, Spring 2001 to present. Commentary, analysis, photos and history. Highly recommended.
Wolverine et al: The Gustafsen Lake Crisis, $4
Interviews, statements and chronology from the 1995 British Colombia native sovereignty “crisis”.
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